Antiques show antiquated Maydos was 'entryway to Europe'

Unearthings in the Eceabat region in the northwestern region of Çanakkale have uncovered that individuals from the Balkans settled in the territory 4,000 years prior.

Archeologists have discovered 3,500-year-old antiquities designed with Balkan themes in the Maydos Church Hill Mound site, where they have been burrowing for a long time. For the most part housewares, the discovers included earthenware production, axle whorls, weaving looms, hand tomahawks and a bit of a plate, said Göksel Sazcı, head of unearthings and prehistoric studies teacher at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.

"This is maybe the entryway of Anatolia to Europe," Sazcı, stated, "the point where the individuals of Europe and the Anatolian individuals met was Maydos. It is significant in this regard."

The current year's unearthings likewise revealed an old guard framework that was found a year ago. Archeologists found a protection divider from the Early Bronze Age that was worked at a grade by making crisscrosses. They additionally discovered two other safeguard dividers.

"We have advanced a great deal, yet it wasn't workable for us to [uncover the whole safeguard system]. We will uncover it in the following season," Sazcı said.

In the middle piece of the hill, archeologists discovered antiquities and structures identified with nearby generation.

In the western piece of the hill, "we can say that nearby individuals from the Balkans, Bulgaria and Romania, just as the traders, lived there," Sazcı said. "Perhaps they set up an office there. It is conceivable to state that nearby individuals lived in the focal and the more lofty eastern part of the hill."

A fascinating discover this year was the revealing of a human-colored vessel piece, the teacher said.

"Regularly, the human-colored vessel sections are known from the Troas locale (an old Greek city on the Aegean Sea close to the northern tip of Turkey's western coast) in the Early Bronze Age, however this vessel rose up out of the Late Bronze Age. There is a distinction of around 1,000 years. We found an icon in earlier years. Compartments with human faces, icons are a piece of the conviction of that period," he said.

As such, he included, "the conviction of this period proceeded with unaltered in the area for a long time."